Savchenko Kostantin Nikolayevich General data:
27.12.1910 - 29.11.1956
Place of birth: Kherson city, Kherson province, Russian Empire
Studied in: Nadia Krupskaya Kherson Institute of Public Education (Kherson State Pedagogical University) (1931);
Key interests: celestial mechanics, cosmology, astronomy. PhD Thesis: On the motion of celestial bodies, the mass of which varies in time (1935 ); ScD Thesis: Experience of the qualitative substantiation of Kant's cosmogonic theory (1948 );
Biography:
He was born on December 27, 1910 in the Kherson city of Kherson province of the Russian Empire in the family of a military clerk.
In 1931, he graduated from the Nadia Krupska Kherson Institute of Public Education, which he entered after graduating from the seven-year school and the Kherson Vocational Technical School in 1927.
After his graduation in 1931, he was recommended to graduate school at the Kharkiv Physical-Chemical-Mathematical Institute, which became part of Kharkiv State University in 1933. In graduate school, he studied celestial mechanics. Graduated from postgraduate studies in 1934 under the leadership of A. I. Razdolsky.
In 1935, he defended his candidate's thesis "On the motion of celestial bodies whose mass changes over time".
In 1934, he joined the dynamic astronomy sector of the Kharkiv Astronomical Observatory, headed by A. I. Razdolsky.
In 1934-1941, he taught the course of Celestial Mechanics at Kharkiv State University and was a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Kharkiv University in 1934-1940 pp. and associate professor of the Department of Astronomy. At the same time, during 1938-1940, at the invitation of the Kherson Pedagogical Institute, he read a course in general astronomy there, and in 1940 he returned to Kherson and worked as an associate professor at the Kherson Pedagogical Institute. According to other data, from 1934 he also worked at the Odesa Astronomical Observatory.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the citizens of the Soviet Union against the German-fascist invaders, which was part of World War II, he was an associate professor at the Kherson Pedagogical Institute, teaching astronomy there.
Later, he established ties with Odessa partisans, but his life was in danger (he was captured by the Germans, later he managed to escape...). Due to the fact that K.D. Pokrovsky helped him get a job as a watchmaker, the astronomer's life was saved.
in February 1948 he defended his doctoral thesis "Experience of the qualitative substantiation of Kant's theory of cosmogony". In 1950, he was promoted to the academic title of professor.
From the end of the 1940s, he taught theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics courses at the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University, where he moved in November 1943. In 1944-1956, he was the head of the theoretical astronomy department of the university observatory. Since the fall (since September) of 1944 to the beginning of 1945, and in 1950-1956, he was the head of the Department of Astronomy at the I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University.
He died on November 29, 1956 from a heart attack and was buried at the second Christian cemetery in Odessa city.
Specialist in celestial mechanics and cosmogony K.M. As a teacher and scientist, Savchenko published more than 50 scientific works, a study guide for students on theoretical astronomy.
He participated in the performance of a number of works of the Astronomical Observatory of Kharkiv State University on the eve of the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years on celestial mechanics - the dynamics of minor planets of the Jupiter group, the problem of three bodies of variable mass, determination and improvement of the orbits of minor planets.
While working at the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University, he was engaged in theoretical research related to the celestial-mechanical substantiation of the cosmogony hypothesis of the great Germanic thinker Immanuel Kant.
Main publications:
1. Савченко К. М. Курс небесної механіки
2. Савченко К. Н. Очерки по небесной механике
Sources:
1 Астрономия в Харьковском университете (к 100летию основания астрономической обсерватории университета) Александров Ю. В. //Очерки ист. естетвознан. и техн. (Киев).-1988-№34. С.62
2 Историко-астрономические иследования/ Ин-т истории естествознания и техники им. С. И. Вавилова.- М.:Наука. 1955- Вып.28 / Отв. ред. Г. М. Идлис.-2003.- С.42
3 ⓘ Люди, повязані з Херсоном. 1923 - Арбатов Георгій Аркадійович, російський політолог, учений-американіст. 1880 - Гопнер Серафима Іллівна, радянський партійний і ..
4 Абалакин В. К. ПРОФЕССОР К.Н.САВЧЕНКО//Страницы истории астрономии в Одессе, ч.2, 1995, Одесса, с.33-39
